Status of the most recent monthly-averaged greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide (record high), methane, and nitrous oxide (record high).

Observational data provided by https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Government’s final execution of emancipation. 📜

Read the text in scans based on the original handwritten records preserved by the U.S. National Archives and saved to the Internet Archive ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/general-order-3-juneteenth-details

#History #Archives #BlackHistory

(re-posted from 2023)

I asked why the library didn't have a #Juneteenth holiday. The response was "It's not one in the policy manual." I wrote to the trustees, they put it on the agenda, voted unanimously for it, and now it's a library holiday.

When we talk about white supremacy and libraries, think about how a group of well-meaning but ultimately non-proactive trustees (and director) just kind of... didn't think about this for two years, just never put it on the agenda. That's how it works.

O.O

...

via #EliotJacobson

https://bsky.app/profile/climatecasino.net/post/3mol4fhc2mk2w

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

Spain’s renewables revolution is paying off: Electricity bills are lower despite energy crisis

The country has long had some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe (including significant periods of negative prices) but households often saw higher bills due to marginal costs like grid balancing with gas.

Those costs have improved as others have seen costs rise, and Spain now has household electricity rates lower than the EU average, as well as their neighbor France

https://www.euronews.com/2026/06/16/spains-renewables-revolution-is-paying-off-electricity-bills-are-lower-despite-energy-cris

#RenewableEnergy

Finally, somebody has put into words how bizarre Trump is being about Iran and the Middle East more generally. https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/06/trump-g7-comments-misunderstsand-middle-east/687569/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweCg5cidZtsy8wLzVuW82Q6U

What the author misses is how many of Trump’s cultish followers will adopt whatever craziness Trump spins. This is where Trump is cunning.

Alberta-based astrophotographer Alan Dyer posted this video of his night sky full of satellites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZpbJJLk1ug

Video alt-text: A time-lapse of the Milky Way, with many satellite streaks crawling across it, continuously. At the end of the video, he stacks exposures, and the stars gradually disappear under a set of satellites streaks over the course of a couple hours.